If I enable notifications to be shown on the lock screen, my owner information gets overwritten on the screen and cannot be viewed. But if I disable lock screen notifications, then I don't even get message icons in the lock screen notification bar. (I'm using the Google Now launcher, if it matters.)
I suppose I could just tape my owner info to the back of the phone. That would have the benefit of continuing to work even if the battery drains. Still, it's slightly annoying to have this new conflict from the Lollipop upgrade.
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Hello,
I'm new user of HOX. I never flash ROM or rooting or what so ever. Recently I encountered an annoying problem.
In my security settings, I set PIN for my screen security and Lock phone after 10 minutes of inactivity.
Everytime I open another task in my notification bar. It turned out my screen is locked and I have to key in PIN to use another task. For eg, I'm checking my Gmail, then I scroll down the notification bar and open Facebook to view my Facebook notification, and then to view my Facebook, I have to unlock my screen.
Why is it so ??? Please help and it is very annoying.
Besides that, anyone have good apps to introduce for off and on screen without pushing power button and not draining the battery ?
Thanks.
Have an issue with the way the lock-screen works on the galaxy s4, want to know if its a bug or the way the phone is. for example with the swipe no security option for lock-screen when you get a message it displays, lights up for about five seconds and goes off, i like that its handy. now however if i choose security, anyone of them i like the pin, and i get a message it lights up in the home screen with the message in the status bar and stays like that for the duration of my screen time out, if its set to 10 minutes it stays there for ten minutes, the only way to get around it is when security is enabled is to have it lock immediately, then the message displays like regular and goes off, i don't like that because i don't like putting in a pass code every three seconds. isn't it it suppose to display the message in lock-screen even with a security enabled but not lock lock as yet, like the way say HTC phones do, its annoying is this a lock-screen bug?
I have a SGN2, unrooted. It runs Android version is 4.1.2. I use a utility to toggle on/off the lock screen, "SwitchPro Widget". My lock mode is "Pattern Lock".
SwitchPro works perfectly in toggling many of the state variables. I notice a "bug", but I don't think it is attributed to SwitchPro - I think it might be of Android.
Situation where things work properly:
Assume that I have the lock screen toggled off (no security set). Occasionally I get a notification, for which I can slide open the Notification window for a listing of all current notification. If I close the listing, without opening any individual notification message, then the lock screen remains toggled off. Good, no change as expected.
Situation where things mysteriously change:
Assume that I have the lock screen toggled off (no security set). Occasionally I get a notification, for which I can slide open the Notification window for a listing of all current notification. If I select an individual notification message from the list, then the lock screen mysteriously toggles on, and demands me to enter my unlock pattern code, before viewing the individual notification. The is bad - what is causing the lock screen state to be toggle?
Has anyone else encountered this?
Any ideas on how this can be remedied?
You could try simply turning off the security in the android settings, instead of trying to use a widget to do it.
Most apps that claim they can turn off your lock settings, usually can't. Android won't let them do it permanently. If you reboot, you will need to re-run the app, but before you can do that, you'll need to enter the code.
You can however, simply go into the android settings and turn it off manually. Then it will be permanent until you go back and turn it on again.
Skeleton said:
I have a SGN2, unrooted. It runs Android version is 4.1.2. I use a utility to toggle on/off the lock screen, "SwitchPro Widget". My lock mode is "Pattern Lock".
SwitchPro works perfectly in toggling many of the state variables. I notice a "bug", but I don't think it is attributed to SwitchPro - I think it might be of Android.
Situation where things work properly:
Assume that I have the lock screen toggled off (no security set). Occasionally I get a notification, for which I can slide open the Notification window for a listing of all current notification. If I close the listing, without opening any individual notification message, then the lock screen remains toggled off. Good, no change as expected.
Situation where things mysteriously change:
Assume that I have the lock screen toggled off (no security set). Occasionally I get a notification, for which I can slide open the Notification window for a listing of all current notification. If I select an individual notification message from the list, then the lock screen mysteriously toggles on, and demands me to enter my unlock pattern code, before viewing the individual notification. The is bad - what is causing the lock screen state to be toggle?
Has anyone else encountered this?
Any ideas on how this can be remedied?
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I have encountered this numerous times and it can be frustrating. If you are rooted, you can install Xposed Framework and install the Notification Direct Launcher module. This will prevent this from happening, works like a charm.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2434164
with this update when I receive a missed call, txt, email etc it shows up at the top of the screen as a notification and shows some of the text. when i press it, thinking it`ll expand i just get a large empty box pop up on the below half of the screen, with no further data, in this box i can unlock the phone, outside of the box just reverts back to the normal lock screen with the notification.
pretty annoying - can it be disabled?
2 days ago I started getting a strange lock screen on my S3. I noticed it when my alarm went off in the morning. There was a plain black and blue lock screen. When I swiped past it, my alarm showed up. When I dismissed my alarm, my normal lock screen showed up (complete with the normal unlock pattern dots.)
This new lock screen doesn't show up all the time. Maybe 2-3 times per day. I think, but I'm not sure, that it's being triggered by the phone going to sleep. Turning the screen off and on only triggers the normal lock screen. The new lock screen never overrides the default lock screen - it's just over top of it. Also, it looks like if I disable lock screens altogether in settings, the new lock screen goes away.
I've uninstalled all launchers except Lightning Launcher and TouchWiz. LL's lock screen is a separate app that I do not have. I've uninstalled all lock screen replacements that I know of (I only had Widget Locker). I checked the list of recently updated apps to try to figure out if it's a new "feature", but nothing. I've checked the list of running apps, along with apps that automatically start up on load and I don't see anything strange.
Does anyone know of a way I can determine how to figure out what this is? I'd like to get rid of it.
I'm running StockMod ROM 4.3 (rooted). A screenshot is attached.
Thanks.
Hi!
Does StockMod ROM come with the Active Display feature? Because what you are seeing might some kind of Active Display...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450697
I didn't see Active Display, but I did notice that Dynamic Notifications was enabled. Not sure when or why. I turned it off and I haven't seen anything pop up since. Hopefully that was it.
Thanks for your help!